Edinburgh

By John Gifford and Colin McWilliam

The historic capital of Scotland is well known as a fortified medieval city with castle and crown-steepled church, its Royal Mile leading down to the Abbey and Palace of Holyrood; as a merchant city of the Stuart period with Parliament House and closely built houses and tenements; as a Georgian town with the largest sequence of planned developments in Britain; as a Victorian town of churches and banks, hotels and pubs, of quiet surburbs; and as a twentieth-century city where the Festival and its Fringe have encouraged the rediscovery of old buildings and the planning of new ones. A comprehensive gazetteer is provided to all notable developments of central Edinburgh, the seaport town of Leith and the suburban neighbourhoods.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300096720
• ISBN13: 9780300096729
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 4.7" x 7.1"